It’s worth pointing here to Pro Publica: Journalism in the public interest, which has been in the news the past few days. The site — an independent nonprofit newsroom supported by private philanthropy aimed at providing in-depth investigative news stories — debuted Sunday with a 60 Minutes report on the US-funded Alhurra Network in the […]
New media
The most useful new media sites
Guy Berger, an educator from South Africa, is here at the Future of Civic Media conference at MIT, did an informal of several participants, and came up with this very good list of the most useful new media sites. Guy, who is head of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University in […]
NY Times to test crowdsourcing its data
From my new post at the IdeaLab blog: News about a potentially big deal in the newspaper industry broke just before the holiday weekend. No, not another story about a chain swallowing another chain, or news about the formation of yet another online advertising platform that’s doomed to underperform. Instead, this was a kind of […]
ReelChanges: viewer-funded documentaries
Big banner on the wall: “How can the intersection of journalism & technology serve democracy?” That’s the overarching theme of NewsTools 2008, where 200 or so folks are gathered today (and tomorrow) at Yahoo! as well as Saturday at a Sunnyvale hotel for Innovations in Journalism Expo 2008. I’ll post a few highlights from today: […]
The NY Times — finally! — allows user comments on stories
Public editor Clark Hoyt in the Sunday NY Times: Civil Discourse, Meet the Internet. Excerpt: How does the august Times, which has long stood for dignified authority, come to terms with the fractious, democratic culture of the Internet, where readers expect to participate but sometimes do so in coarse, bullying and misinformed ways? The answer […]